GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 416031
Arabic encoding not included
Last modified: 2013-09-13 00:50:28 UTC
The bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/82322 "Binary package hint: evolution In Evolution, an Arabic encoding is not being included. Thus, it is not possible to read Arabic e-mails which were written with a client that does not use UTF-8. The encoding that I miss is the Arabic Windows-1252 encoding. ... http://librarian.launchpad.net/6466788/attachment mail See attached file. When opening with kmail for example, the mail is not displayed correctly, but via View -> Set encoding, I can select Arabic (windows-1256) and it is displayed correctly then. In Evolution, that encoding entry is missing in View -> Character Encoding."
The encoding that I miss is the Arabic Windows-1256 encoding, not the Windows-1252 encoding. Sorry, I mixed up something.
Created attachment 85176 [details] [review] diff maybe fixing the issue the attached diff *may* fix the issue. i am currently doing a build.
Created attachment 85181 [details] [review] diff fixing the issue The windows-xxx entry was not needed, the mail is being decoded correctly when using ISO-8859-6. I tried it and it works, yay :)
Created attachment 85207 [details] [review] diff fixing the issue 2 Forgot one line in the patch, added now. Would be nice if you could apply it :)
seb, this cannot be committed to 2.18.1, as it breaks the string freeze. somebody would have to get approval from the GDP (gnome-i18n@).
I would get an approval if you can describe how the process works.
Ill commit this for Evolution 2.11.3 release.
Committed to head.
Created attachment 89594 [details] Add Windows-1252 support In the Ubuntu bugtracker, an user is reporting that he still can't view all mails with Arabic encoding (the patch applied adds the functionality to view *some* mails. but not all). I prepared a patch which adds Windows-1252 support, but the user still has to test it so please do not apply yet.
are you sure it's Windows-1252? 1252 is ~Latin1, not Arabic. http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/1252.htm perhaps you mean Windows-1256?
Thanks, you are right.. I somewhat mixed them up :(
Created attachment 89602 [details] [review] add windows-125>>6<< support